Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-08
PERSONAL PIcKiNGS.

George Westinghouse, Jr., the inventor OF
the air brake. is rated at ss,0o,oo0
Phil Arrnoyr's sou. in the freshman class at
Yale. hiss an allowance OF 500 a week.
Siguor Campanini says that he has been
farming on his little estate near Milan for the
last two years
Commodore Joseph B. Hull is the Oldest
officer in the American navy. He has served
seventy-four years
Gen W. 7. Sherman is now counted as one
Of the regular first niShters at the theatres
and other places of amusement
Lieut.. Hem is coming over again next
summer with the Galatea, and hints that he
NAV rake this country his home.
The Sultan of Turkey is attended by six
slaves every time he makes his toilet, and the
same six never perform the office twice.
King Charles. OF Roumania, reads all the
proofs of his wife's stories and corrects them
for the printer. A revise is then submitted
to the queen.
The house selected by Postmaster General
Villas for his Washington home is in a fash
ionable quarter, adjoining Senator Sher-
mans He paid S35,0Jo for it.
Edmund Sylvester, the founder of Seattle,
W. T., and the oldest member of the Masonic
order west OF the Mississippi died in Seattle
recently at the advanced age of % years.
Bishop H. B. Whipple, of Minnesota, has
long locks like Buffalo Bill, and knows a
great deal about the Indians in his section.
He speaks several Of their dialects. and has
great influence over them
Gen Grants youngest son, Jesse r. Grant,
has STARTED for California TO look after Ger
tain mining properties in which he has be
come interested ehrough Julius Lezynsky.
Mr. Lezynsky is a Pole who has made money
in Pacific coast speculations.
Prince Roland Bonaparte, who married
Miss Blanc of Monte Carlo, has just returned
TO Paris from a tour through Corsica where
he has been visiting tine birthplace of Napo-
leon l. A few years ago Prince Roland and
his mother and sister were living in garnet
in most reduced circumstances.
Henry Georges Progress and Poverty
was among the books found on Count Toll
stoi's table recently by Danileiski, the Russian
writer The count, by the way, beats Glad
stones record in the way of physical exercise.
Every dav he either plows the ground, fells
trees or chops wood TO keep his health in
trim.
Among the successful men who were tele-
graph operators in early life are Andrew
Carnegie, Theodore n Vail, of the Bell uele-
phone company; Ex-Governor Bullock, of
Georgia: ex- Governor Cornell, of New York:
W. j. johnson, the publisher; f. H. johnson,
the president of the Edison company; Thomas
A. Edison, d. II. Bates, the president of the
Baltimore and Ohio telegraph, and Col.
Richard Clowry, western superintendent of
the Western Union.
Nearly all of the wealthy colored men in
the District Of Columbia have made their
money out of real estate. The wealthiest
among them is probably John F. Cook, the
collector of taxes, He purchased large lot
at the corner of Sixteenth and X streets when
it was worth only few cents square foot
1t is now worth small fortune at current
prices Mr.. Cook lives in small white house
on this property. He refuses to sell out and
the value of his ground is increasing all the
time.